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ArticleACS chemical neuroscience2023

Discovery of Potent and Selective CB2 Agonists Utilizing a Function-Based Computational Screening Protocol.

Haixia Ge, Beihong Ji, Jiahui Fang, Jiayang Wang, Jing Li, Junmei Wang

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Article in ACS chemical neuroscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Haixia GeSchool of Life Sciences, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000, China.
Beihong JiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0387-4056
Jiahui FangChinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, National Center for Drug Screening, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China.
Jiayang WangSchool of Life Sciences, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000, China.ORCID 0009-0009-2360-6674
Jing LiChinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, National Center for Drug Screening, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China.
Junmei WangDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9607-8229

Funding

New Generation of General AMBER Force Field for Biomedical ResearchR01GM147673 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WANG, JUNMEI, YANG, WEI · 2022 to 2025
$1.5M
AI-Powered Biased Ligand DesignR01GM149705 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Junmei Wang · 2023 to 2026
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM147673NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM149705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nowadays, the identification of agonists and antagonists represents a great challenge in computer-aided drug design. In this work, we developed a computational protocol enabling us to design/screen novel chemicals that are likely to serve as selective CB2 agonists. The principle of this protocol is that by calculating the ligand-residue interaction profile (LRIP) of a ligand binding to a specific target, the agonist-antagonist function of a compound is then able to be determined after statistical analysis and free energy calculations. This computational protocol was successfully applied in CB2 agonist development starting from a lead compound, and a success rate of 70% was achieved. The functions of the synthesized derivatives were determined by in vitro functional assays. Moreover, the identified potent CB2 agonists and antagonists strongly interact with the key residues identified using the already known potent CB2 agonists/antagonists. The analysis of the interaction profile of compound

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Drug DesignReceptor, Cannabinoid, CB2LigandsReceptor, Cannabinoid, CB1LigandsReceptor, Cannabinoid, CB1Receptor, Cannabinoid, CB2CB1/CB2function-based ligand designreceptor−ligand binding profilestructure−activity relationship

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PMID37823773
PMCPMC10623575

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